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Sad that after 29 years, the mothers of those who were slaughtered have no answer. Every year, they gather together, and can only console each other in their losses.

Meanwhile, the former party members who were for reform, were simply kicked out of the government.

When it actually comes to treating people, the way it’s dealt with Hong Kong, continually misconstruing their messages, and continually not listening, the Taiwanese see this. They see what the CCP is doing to Hong Kong, and they know: Taiwan is next. After 1997, before the recent president, the pro-China faction would always tout 一國兩制 (One Country, Two Systems —“1C2S”) as a model that Taiwan might be able to follow, to take advantage of improving its economy with China, while also being able to maintain its autonomy. However, bringing Taiwan’s economy closer to mainland China’s is what 馬英九(Ma, Ying-Jeou) did, and it hasn’t helped at all, which caused people to question this approach. Then, looking closer at Hong Kong’s situation, and seeing how Hong Kong’s autonomy has come under siege by Beijing, no politician has mentioned 1C2S in this election, because that would be political suicide.

Seeing as Taiwan’s economic woes haven’t been solved by China’s help, and in fact, in some cases even exacerbated it, Taiwan is seeking other ways to get out of its situation. One of the things that’s being thrown around, is to increase its international standing, by having it return to the United Nations. However, it also has to fix its bi-lateral relations with a lot of different countries, especially countries who have under economic pressure, gone to the embrace of mainland China. This will be the hard part. However, not only is the current president 馬英九 going to be gone in a couple months, but also his entire party was nearly voted out. This is the first time in almost 30 years, that there is no strong opposition party, and it’ll be interesting to see what 蔡英文’s party, the 民主進步黨 (Democratic Progressive Party) will do, not just for Taiwan, but with their relations with China, and the rest of the world during her term.

]]>http://bash.congkeringpath.com/?feed=rss2&p=132301323Poverty & Adoptionhttp://bash.congkeringpath.com/?p=1322
http://bash.congkeringpath.com/?p=1322#respondWed, 21 Oct 2015 18:44:45 +0000http://bash.congkeringpath.com/?p=1322Read more →]]>Happy 重陽! Actually, this is somewhat of a solemn holiday, where we normally go to our ancestors’ graves, clean it up, and offer some chrysanthemum flowers, because according to the traditional Chinese calendar, the 9nth month of the year’s 9th day, is when they’re in full bloom. This is a day for family to get together.

Couple of weeks ago, I read this piece:My privileged life and China’s one-child policy
About a girl who was given up for adoption by her Chinese parents, then taken in by Americans. Years later, she reconnected with her family in China, where she got to know her brother, and is giving him a chance to come to the states to study. It’s a nice story of a negative turned to a positive. So here’s where I come in and rain in on everybody’s good-vibes. While I’m happy she could come to the US and live a better life, it’s a sign that women in China are living under a sexist society, and poor abject poverty. Poverty caused by a party-dominated state, that says “Democracy is bad, and isn’t for China”, they also said capitalism was bad too, until they called it “socialism with Chinese characteristics”. That, and also, the adoption scheme is a money-making business for China. Most people only think of how people have turned adoption into a business, but have forgotten, this is also the Communist government’s way of making money, by charging all sorts of administrative fees for the process.

This explains why in a previously-linked documentary: 社會能見度：打拐這些年, another business has formed, where people WITHIN China hire professionals to steal a child, rather than adopting. Aside from the social stigma of adoption equalling “given up”, implying these kids are “goods no one wants”, it’s also a matter of red tape. As the government wants some money for these adoption transactions, this makes stealing someone else’s child much easier.

To solve the foreign adoption issue nationalists hate, and the kidnapping issue China domestically faces, you’d have to pry the government’s hands from making adoption such a hard issue. However, the ultimate issue of poverty and economic inequality is a harder nut to crack, especially as their economy slows

]]>http://bash.congkeringpath.com/?feed=rss2&p=132201322One Year After: Long Road Ahead.http://bash.congkeringpath.com/?p=1321
http://bash.congkeringpath.com/?p=1321#respondMon, 28 Sep 2015 22:49:41 +0000http://bash.congkeringpath.com/?p=1321Read more →]]>One year ago, Hong Kong people took to the streets. But everyone all over the world was watching. What’s happened since? Sadly, not much good. The government continues to be blind to what the people want, Beijing’s officials continue to say things that undermine Hong Kong’s way of life, like saying Hong Kong needs to “de-colonize” (i.e. take away British vestiges over the island, which means “rule of law”, and a relatively working government), to making bogus claims that the executive branch of Hong Kong’s government is above the judicial branch. This sort of government with “Chinese characteristics” flies in the face of checks and balances. I suppose however, this official was looking at this picture…
..And thought, “da pikchur sez executive is on top.” Yeah… Nevermind that Checks and balances actually means each branch of government has a bit of authority over the other two branches actually look more like this…
Holy shit! The ChiComms can’t have that! It looks too much like the |= |_ G wheel! “Must de-colonize!”
Huh?

Hong Kong will have another hard year up ahead. 2047 might come a lot sooner than expected…

]]>http://bash.congkeringpath.com/?feed=rss2&p=132101321Slow on TianJin, Abe, and the markets.http://bash.congkeringpath.com/?p=1319
http://bash.congkeringpath.com/?p=1319#respondTue, 18 Aug 2015 16:27:34 +0000http://bash.congkeringpath.com/?p=1319Read more →]]>Back in July, China’s stock market lost 35% value. That’s huge. It even sent ripple worldwide, and continues to be an issue as of the writing of this blog post. Make sure you get your Put positions ready. But then again, what if they go back up again? Don’t listen to my stock advice!

Then, all of Asia is still talking about 安倍 晋三あべ しんぞう(Shinzo Abe)’s speech, on the 70th anniversary of their defeat. The rest of Asia expected an apology, but the apology was like “Yeah, we’re sorry we lost the war! Mother fuckers!” When what they are really looking for is “We’re sorry we went to war, and committed all those atrocities.” However, that’s a pipe dream. As mentioned before, the Japanese as a whole don’t know what they did in WWII, they just know they suffered atomic destruction, after seeing their men being forcibly conscripted into the Imperial Japanese Army. Now with a right-wing conservative at the helm, wishing that the Japanese change their views of themselves as aggressors instead of sufferers is a much harder task, and expecting an “genuine” apology is not constructive to relations in the region.

The entire argument for Hong Kong to accept Beijing’s fake democracy package can be summed up as, “This is your only chance at voting”. That’s a very nice way of putting it. Let me see if I can put it in an English style the Communist government would say: “You have no choice, except for the one we give you!!!” Thus, “The CCP giveth, and the CCP taketh”.

simply aren’t true. Because if that was the case, Beijing wouldn’t have released its statement on August 31st last year…

So… According to Aris, they don’t want to rule, except at every little turn, when Hong Kong tries to govern itself, they come in and make statements and put in terms of what person can be a candidate to lead Hong Kong. So they don’t want to govern, but then they want to govern who governs Hong Kong… So they want to govern! Just come out and say it, BeiJing! Might as will just roll in the tanks if the Hong Kong people resist!

BeiJing and the Pan-Dems’ suggestion to 袋住先 (Take it in first), and hope that somehow it can be changed and reform later, is a hoax. It’s really 袋一世 (Keep it for life). This isn’t the only choice Hong Kong has. It can do better, and will do better.

]]>http://bash.congkeringpath.com/?feed=rss2&p=131801318YangTze Sinkinghttp://bash.congkeringpath.com/?p=1317
http://bash.congkeringpath.com/?p=1317#respondTue, 09 Jun 2015 17:50:00 +0000http://bash.congkeringpath.com/?p=1317Read more →]]>14 survived, less than 50 missing, 396 dead. As of the writing of this blog post, this is the latest count on the sinking cruise liner in the 揚子江 (Yangtze River). Reuters reports that state security on the bereaving loved ones is a concern. They kept in quarters to prevent from talking with each other for the most part.

This is a problem with China’s entire system at large. They all want a 明君 (Benevolent ruler), who does good for all the people. Yippy. They forget that when the so-called “benevolent ruler” abuses his powers without checks and balances, you get the 大躍進 (Great Leap Forward), which led to 三年大饑荒 (Three years of Great Famine), where it’s covered up as the 三年自然災害 (Three years of Natural Disasters) in the history books, that is, if it’s mentioned at all.

The problem is, the Chinese selective memory in conveniently forgetting its own historical mistakes lets people move on with their lives to become productive proletariat, and blah blah blah, “communist-paradise on earth” will give you all the material possessions that the decadent West, so everybody just move along now, OK?

So, while China hammers on about Japanese war atrocities, or its island disputes with Japan and in the South China Seas. Heck, it will report on anything that will tug at the nationalistic heart strings, just to get your attention away from the issues that shows the Communist government as incompetent. Which is why, even when reporting on this ship sinking, it will stop short of giving you good investigative journalism, because the company that ran the cruise liner was a state-owned enterprise.

Now, I’m not a Republican who believes that privatization is the key to magically solves these problems, because even if you switch the owners from government officials to rich businessmen (who just so happen to have heavy ties with government officials), the structure won’t change at all. Safety is not a good business, and costs money. Whether its safety for its own factory workers, or safety for passengers on a cruise, investing in the right infrastructure for safety means it’ll have to drive up costs to operate. I’m not defending the business, but this means that the fat-cats will not have any incentive to pocket more money, and they have no economic incentive to do so. So what do you do, when you know you have a market full of a new low-middle class who want to go on a cruise for a cheap price?

You cut corners, and in a 明君 (Benevolent Ruler) System, you cannot ask questions. What ”the 明君 gives, the 明君 takes away”, blessed is thy name of the 明君. That’s right! You have no course of action against the cruise liner! They MIGHT give you a measly compensation, but most they will give, is a promise to change their practices without actually doing anything. They can get away with it too. Because in a 明君 System, what would entice the leaders to increase security? You could ask for checks and balances, but no 明君 would want that, as it would hinder their ability to rule with complete control.

And, because the Communist Party is so holy, and can do no wrong, every card-carrying member is a 明君. So if you propose a check and balance on some other guy, you’re stepping on someone’s toes, and they might not be happy. However, if you get all these 明君s to ban together and protect each others interests, then you get an oligarchy. And now, true communist ideology, where a group of people with shared interests come together in a common goal: To protect their own interests by helping protect the interests of others. After all, “同一個夢想，同一個夢” (One World, One Dream) —everybody else, including the common person be damned.

Yes, this is the Mandarin translation of the documentary. You can find the English narration somewhere on the internet. Regardless, the fact that people who talk about this dwindles further with every passing year. Yet, China’s actions continue to stay the same.

China of 1989, said that Hong Kong would enjoy 五十年不變 (“50 years without change”). What exactly does that mean? It meant that China would handle all international affairs on a government level, while Hong Kong would continue to do its own thing. Hong Kong people call this “港人治港” (“Hong Kong people rule over Hong Kong”), or as then-President 江澤民 said:

Yet they went back on their word, which is why the Umbrella Movement kicked off. With Hong Kong return to the mainland, they talked with the British, and the Hong Kong people had no say. To placate their fears, they told them lies. They continue to use this same approach towards Taiwan to this day.

This ultimately goes back to the way they treat their own people. They say they guarantee them rights, but what do they do? Shootem’ down, when they exercise their rights. Today, the new generation don’t know anything about it:

Yet for some reason, they like to clamor on about how Japan has completely forgotten its war-time atrocities, yet when it comes to its own atrocities, it’s not even willing to fess up.

It was wrong for Japan to have done what they did, and even more egregious for them to deny it, or simply wipe it off today. The same however, goes for China on TianAnMen.

Will prohibition of cigarettes in BeiJing lead to smuggling of cigarettes, and create a new black market? That’s what Libertarians would love you to believe, but it won’t ever get to that point. Even the leadership smokes!
Even with all the nationalistic talk, about how “evil, ‘racist’ foreigners tried to poison the Chinese people with Opium.” Please, mother-fuckers, stop with the victim mentality! You hate European nations for poisoning your own people so much over 120 years ago, yet I don’t see ANYONE quitting smoking out of nationalism.

Now, they’re trying to be “healthy” with this decision? Please. That’s about as effective of a system, as trying to make an atheist country, but then you “recognize” religions, and the ones that don’t conform are cults. Oh, and thanks to your hypocratic stance on atheism with a hardline stance on religion, now China’s set to becoming a Christians. Yeah, the religion of those “evil, ‘racist’, foreigners” you blame for poisoning you.

Just keep shooting yourselves in the foot on this one, China. You want to make people healthier? Why don’t you clean up your polluting factories and enforce environmental laws?

Oh, why am I bothering trying to show that video? It’s banned. Why don’t you do something about redesigning your cities to be more bike-friendly, which cuts down on the pollution from your cars? Yeah, you know what that’s like, right? Riding bikes in Chinese cities, like it was 20 years ago!!! For all this talk about doing things “the Chinese way”, it turns out you’ve been following their tail in polluting your own nation. Now, other nations have long been talking about reducing their pollution, yet you still persist in continuing.

Now, you want to cut down people from smoking. It won’t help the environment, your policy won’t work, and will only make people smoke more in defiance. You’re not addressing the underlying issue of why people smoke, even when they know it kills them!

Hey, guess what though? Here’s a starter: You can make people realize how valuable clean air is, by actually cleaning up your air and reducing pollutants, and maybe people might be reminded of how wonderful good air is compared to bad smoke and smog?

Today isn’t the day where I dissect why this victimization mentality is dead wrong, though. The thing is, the people believe the victimization mentality, and it’s useful to use nationalism in controlling your own people. But by dishing out this narrative, it leaves the people and the government wanting one thing: Respect.

They believe that by challenging the US militarily, they can gain respect. Being viewed as a bully doesn’t matter to them, because they believe it is a “God-given” right, after they have suffered for so long. They believe once they are on top of the world, no one has to agree or like them, but they will have to “respect” them.